Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 09:04:49 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Cc: Liste FreeBSD-fr Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd-fr.org>, Patrick Proniewski <patpro@patpro.net> Subject: Re: i386 EFI motherboard and FreeBSD 6 Message-ID: <200606120904.50256.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <58A8328D-826A-4800-BDFF-DB67ADF275A3@patpro.net> References: <58A8328D-826A-4800-BDFF-DB67ADF275A3@patpro.net>
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On Saturday 10 June 2006 04:21, Patrick Proniewski wrote: > Hi > > I'm thinking about buying an Intel motherboard with Xeon LV > (Sossaman) to run FreeBSD. This board uses EFI instead of "regular" > BIOS. Is it possible to boot FreeBSD 6 for i386 (sossaman is 32 bits > proc.) on an EFI based motherboard ? FreeBSD/i386 doesn't support EFI yet, only FreeBSD/ia64 does. Are you sure the motherboard requires EFI and doesn't also provide a BIOS interface of some sort (perhaps on top of EFI)? If it does that, then FreeBSD/i386 will boot fine using the BIOS interface. -- John Baldwin
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